Old Photograph Gordon Jackson Scotland

Old photograph of Gordon Jackson who was born on 19 December 1923 in Glasgow, Scotland. Gordon Cameron Jackson was a Scottish Emmy Award winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals. He was the youngest of five children. He attended Hillhead High School, and in his youth he took part in BBC radio shows including Children's Hour. He left school aged 15 and became a draughtsman for Rolls-Royce. His film career started in 1942, when producers from Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in The Foreman Went to France and he was suggested for the part. After this, he returned to his job at Rolls-Royce, but he was soon asked to do more films, and he made the decision to make acting his career. He soon appeared in other Ealing films, including Millions Like Us, San Demetrio London, The Captive Heart, Eureka Stockade and Whisky Galore a 1949 Ealing comedy film from the novel Whisky Galore by Compton MacKenzie. Both the film and the novel are based on the real life 1941 shipwreck of the S.S. Politician near the island of Eriskay and the unauthorised taking of its cargo of whisky. In the early years of his career, Jackson also worked in rep in Glasgow, Worthing, England, and Perth, Perthshire. He died 1989, aged 66, in London, England. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.



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